Day in Photos: June 18, 2010

Nahanni Johnstone kisses her eight year old daughter, Chloe, both covered with oil during a Global Day of Action demonstration in Toronto. Organized by the At the Table Coalition, an umbrella group of leading non-profit organizations, marchers advocated for government spending to be allocated to combating climate change at the upcoming G8 and G20 Summits.

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A fan cries as U.S. actors Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart arrive for the red carpet to promote the movie “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” in downtown Rome

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A race-goer wear a rat and cheese hat during the fourth day of horse racing at Royal Ascot in southern England

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La Joya Municipal Court Judge Joe Henry Garza walks to his arraignment in Edinburg, Texas, on a charge of theft by a public servant. He is accused of using traffic fines paid by those who appeared before him to pay his personal credit card.

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A funnel cloud forms near Grand Forks International Airport Thursday afternoon. A number of tornados were reported in the northern Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota into the evening.

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Contestants pose during the judging of the Miss Universe Australia final in Sydney. Thirty finalists from all over Australia were judged across three sections: swimwear, eveningwear and verbal response.

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A group of programmable humanoid Nao robots, developed by a French company Aldebaran Robotics, dance inside the France Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo in Shanghai, China.

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Sri Lankan snipers participate in a victory day parade in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka showed off its military hardware during a victory parade Friday to celebrate the first anniversary of the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels, amid growing criticism over alleged rights abuses in the last phase of the quarter-century civil war.

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Paul Bonhomme of Great Britain flies past the Statue of Liberty during the Red Bull Air Race Training Day in New York .

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, left, sit with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, Samantha Cameron inside 10 Downing Street, London. Sarkozy marked the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle’s defiant World War II broadcast from London on Friday, visiting the studio where the leader urged his compatriots to resist the German occupation.

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A Hindu holy man performs yoga on a hilltop at Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India. The annual Ambubasi festival will begin Tuesday where hundreds of Tantric Sadhus, or holy men from an esoteric form of Hinduism, gather to perform rituals at the temple.

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The execution chamber at the Utah State Prison after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad on Friday, June 18. The bullet holes are visible in the wood panel behind the chair. Gardner was convicted of aggravated murder, a capital felony, in 1985.

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Cindy Wood stands in front of her tornado-damaged home in Wadena, Minn. At least three people were killed and dozens injured as a series of tornadoes tore through Minnesota Thursday, flattening homes and toppling power lines.

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A visitor stands in front of paintings by Georg Baselitz during the reopening of the Albertinum, a museum of the Dresden State Art Collection (SKD). The Albertinum is dedicated to art from the last 200 years. Originally built in 1559, the Albertinum was badly damaged by bombs in 1945 and again by flooding in 2002. The €51 million renovation took more than five years to complete. The new exhibition halls are shared by the Galerie Neue Meister and the Skulpturensammlung. The holdings of both museums, with paintings ranging from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter and sculptures ranging from Rodin to the 21st century, have an outstanding worldwide reputation.

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Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant holds the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy and the Bill Russell MVP Trophy after his team deafeated the Boston Celtics in Game 7 to win the 2010 NBA Finals basketball series in Los Angeles.

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Ten models play football in mud to celebrate the World Cup in Changsha, Hunan province of China.

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Fire and smoke rise from a controlled burn of oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill source. Louisiana’s state treasurer estimated environmental and economic damages from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill could range from $40 billion to $100 billion, and that the BP $20 billion escrow fund was not enough.

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An overturned bus is surrounded by debris in a school bus yard in Wadena, Minn. after severe storms ripped through northwestern Minnesota Thursday night. The National Weather Service collected 36 reports of tornado sightings Thursday, with northwestern and southern Minnesota hit hardest. If the sightings are all confirmed, it would exceed the previous state record of 27 in one day, in 1992.

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A model displays a creation of Chinese brand Aimer with a drummer during “Dream Water” swimwear fashion show in Beijing.

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President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. prior to traveling to Columbus, Ohio.

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A US fan enjoys the atmosphere during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group C match between Slovenia and the US at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Thousands of people line up Friday for the grand opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla.

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A woman sunbathes next to branches swept away by the floods on the Quebrantos beach at San Juan de la Arena, northern Spain. Heavy rains caused flooding throughout this week in the northern Spanish region of Asturias.

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Tiger Woods tees off on the 13th hole during the second round of the 110th US Open Championship on the Pebble Beach Golf Links at Pebble Beach, California.

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A Chinese airforce personnel holds on to a kid during an airlift of a group of villagers trapped by floodwaters in Jinxiu, southwest China’s Guangxi region. The death toll from floods and landslides triggered by torrential downpours in southern China rose to 46, as weather authorities warned of more rain to come.